Our Russian might be a bit rusty but that won’t stop us from appreciating the Winter Olympics and the Russian participants. Doing her best to warm up Sochi is Ekaterina Stolyarova.
Genius! There are some clever thinking Russians out there that designed these double-toilets for the Sochi Winter Olympics. Never again will you need a magazine or play Angry Birds to pass the time on the loo – because now your buddy is right there with you!
Athens takes bronze with $15 billion. Beijing gets bumped down to silver with $40 billion. And the gold medal goes to Russia with $50 billion, making the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics the most expensive Olympics ever. Let’s meet a couple of Russia’s wealthiest individuals responsible for the bill.
If you aren’t planning on boycotting the Sochi Olympics this year amidst the many human rights issues and PR disasters, then feel free to bookmark this interactive calendar. This little thing allows you to sort the Sochi goings-on by sport and date. But don’t be duped by the Yank time zones.
With a growing number of people calling for the boycott of next year’s Sochi Olympics because of the much criticized anti-gay law which bans anything that could be seen as promoting homosexuality, the victorious Russian relay team marked their win at the 4 x 400m relay at the World Athletics Championship in Moscow with multiple kisses on the winner’s podium.